The Romantic Movement, the Re/creation of Islamic Andalusia and the Critical Reception
This research monograph breaks new ground in discussing (in English) the impact of Washington Irving's presence in Spain and the effect of his writings on Spanish topics by Spain's critics and general readership. Spanish critics, scholars and translators were and are active in assessing Irving's literary style, scholarly grasp and cultural ......
Indian counterinsurgency has expanded steadily over the years, adding a new region in each decade since the 1950s. Beginning with Nagaland, these wars without a name have followed a remarkably consistent pattern throughout the Northeast, in Punjab, Kashmir, and the central Indian Tribal Belt up to the present day. Such shared features as blanket ......
The Military History of Chukotka from the Early First Millennium to theNineteenth Century
Alexander Nefedkin's highly original new book, translated by the noted American scholar Richard L. Bland, is devoted to the understudied topic of the military and military-political history of Chukotka, the far northeastern region of the Russian Federation, separated from Alaska by Bering Strait. This study is based on primary sources, including ......
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison's Youth, Army Service and Military Associates During the Napoleonic Wars
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (19th February, 1792 - 22nd, October, 1871), KCB, DCL, LLD, FRS, FGL, etc., was one of the founders of modern geology. Using discernible fossil communities he established the Silurian, Permian, and, with Adam Sedgwick, the Devonian stratigraphic systems of geology. He extended his fieldwork to Europe and the Russian ......
Philosophy, Theology and the Politics of Confrontation
This work is a major investigation of the questions of war and peace in Black Africa (by Africans) with an emphasis on the philosophical, theological and political underpinnings of contemporary African thought and practice. The voices are overwhelming African (the one scholar /contributor who was not born in Africa is a full time resident of Kenya ......
Walter Benjamin's Transit is a work in two halves. The first, part 1, entitled "Mapping Desire: Towards a Minor Fascism" applies the lens of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's philosophy to the critical writings of Walter Benjamin, the latter devised amid and an atmosphere of emergent fascism in Europe between two World Wars. This book represents ......
Scholars devoted to analysis of Richard Wagner's operas and music-dramas have long noted his numerous comparisons between their characters and plots in his letters, essays, and recorded remarks. Yet no one has previously attempted to assess their implications for our systematic understanding of his art. Following Heise's allegorical interpretation ......
Wagnerian Influences on French Musical and Literary Culture 1870-1945
Paul du Quenoy's acclaimed book reinterprets the works and ideas of Richard Wagner and their profound influence on the artistic, intellectual, and social life of modern France. Wagner's Romanticism influenced the French symbolists so greatly that they named their major journal La Revue Wagnerienne. His musical themes, dramatic structures and ......
The Shaping of the American Political Universe Since 1788
D Burnham is the Dean of American historians working in the field of elections and is the author of many books; Thomas Ferguson is Professor of History, UMass, Boston and Louis Ferleger is Professor of History at Boston University. Walter Dean Burnham is widely regarded as the greatest living student of American voting behavior. He pioneered the ......
